"All the affairs of men should be managed by individuals or voluntary associations, and . . . the State should be abolished." —Benjamin Tucker

"You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself." —James Madison

"Fat chance." —Sheldon Richman

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America's Counter-Revolution

The Constitution Revisited

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This book challenges the assumption that the Constitution was a landmark in the struggle for liberty. Instead, Sheldon Richman argues, it was the product of a counter-revolution, a setback for the radicalism represented by America’s break with the British empire. Drawing on careful, credible historical scholarship and contemporary political analysis, Richman suggests that this counter-revolution was the work of conservatives who sought a nation of “power, consequence, and grandeur.” America’s Counter-Revolution makes a persuasive case that the Constitution was a victory not for liberty but for the agendas and interests of a militaristic, aristocratic, privilege-seeking ruling class.

Saturday, January 24, 2009

[T]here is no way for government macroeconomic policy to correct an incorrect perception of how [savings/consumption] plans have changed. There is no way for government to acquire the knowledge necessary to be able to coordinate individual plans. Such information simply does not exist. If it is going to ever exist it will be generated by the market process as the results of plan changes and the individual responses they provoke unfold. Any attempt by government to manipulate things will almost certainly make them worse because it is based on woefully incomplete information. It is not that the market prevents any disappointment or even crises. The market is not Utopia. The market works through feedbacks from mistakes as well as feedback from successes. it is just that the market is the best mechanism we have for resolving conflicting or miscommunicated plans. Keynes asked the right questions, but he gave the wrong answers and in the process sent economics off on a very costly detour.

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